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The Smart Museum of Art’s two Academic Engagement Graduate Assistants examine Romare Bearden's work After Church (1941) during a viewing of Terra Foundation Collection objects for Smart Museum staff members in the Education Study Room. Photo courtesy of Cooper Long.

An image of a bird sitting on a tree with pink flowers.

Kerry James Marshall, Black and Part Black Birds in America: (Pigeon and Black Capped Chickadee no 2), 2021. Acrylic on PVC panel in artist's frame, 30 x 24 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. (76.2 x 62.2 x 7 cm), Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Fund, 2025.1

Hale A. Woodruff assisted by Robert L. Neal, The Repatriation of the Freed Captives, 1939. Oil on canvas, 71 3/8 x 123 7/8 in. (181.3 x 314.6 cm), Co-stewarded by Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Fund, and Art Bridges Foundation. Commissioned by Buell G. Gallagher and George W. Crawford for Talladega College, Savery Library, Alabama. The commission was supported in part by the American Missionary Association of New York (AMA), TCA2025.4, AB.2025.65.

A image of figures working.

José Clemente Orozco, Science, Labor, and Art panel from Call to Revolution and Table of Universal Brotherhood, The New School Mural Cycle, 1930–31, The New School Art Collection. Photo credit: Tom Moore

A group of people in an art gallery with a person in a blue shirt leading a discussion.

Gallery Talk led by Dr. Kimia Shahi, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California and 2022-23 Fellow at the Center for the Environment, Harvard University, at the Harvard Art Museums featuring Samuel Coleman's Ships Unloading, New York (1868), on loan from the Terra Foundation for American Art. May 3, 2023. Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums; © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

A group of people look at paintings in a gallery. Four people are seated and one person stands.

A group of people gathered in front of Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Dress (1763) by John Singleton Copley installed alongside objects from the permanent collection of the Georgia Museum of Art. Courtesy Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia

A person standing in an art gallery in front of a wall of many different artworks, pointing specifically at one.

Works on paper from the Terra Foundation Art Collection installed at the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo. Photo by Evandro Carlos Nicolau

An art gallery red wall with three different art pieces in a row, featuring two larger objects and a smaller object in between them.

William Merritt Chase's Morning at Breakwater, Shinnecock (c. 1897), installed alongside objects from the collection of the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig. Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig / Photo: PUNCTUM / Alexander Schmidt

Installation photograph of an exhibition. Two paintings hang on a blue wall on the left side of the image, and three artworks hang on a white wall on the right side of the image.

Installation of the exhibition FREEDOM: Abstract Expressionism, Tougaloo College and the Civil Rights Movement including, left to right, Albert Eugene Gallatin's Room Space (1937-38) and Arshile Gorky's Mannikin (1931). Photo by Mark Geil

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